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an endless love letter✨💌
inspired by folklore & nature
Hand formed & lost wax cast
Made in Portland, OR

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4 star cuffs online and ready to ship to their new homes

Each one unique, hand engraved on sterling silver

🤍✨ by @snakeriver___

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3 years ago

Summer Solstice SALE! 🍓🌻✨

With the Summer Solstice right around the corner, in the celebration of abundance I’m running a sale! 22% off all bronze and silver pieces, applied automatically at checkout at snakeriver.co

Snag something you’ve had your eye on, adorn yourself! Thank you all for your support! Every piece I get to make for y’all fills my heart to the brim! Happy almost Summer!! ☺️🍓✨ taken in Portland, Oregon by @snakeriver___

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✨🪦 Wanna craft amongst the dead? 🪦✨

Join us Sunday October 11th from 3-6pm at Lone Fir Cemetery!

Bring a craft, bring a friend, bring a blanket or a chair

It should be peak fall colors and peak thining of the veil!

Let’s get creative and enjoy the peace that this beautiful space has to offer.

Bring an offering for the crows, find your favorite headstone, cozy up and settle in with us 🐈‍⬛🐦‍⬛🎃

Fill out the form via the link in my bio to RSVP & Venmo a little donation to help me cover costs

Spots are limited and filling fast!

Comment if you’re excited to join us and send to your spooky friends!

Can’t wait to gather again with y’all amongst the ancestors 🪦✨🍁

#cemetery #autumncraft #community #smallbusiness #portland taken in Lone Fir Cemetery by @snakeriver___

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This flower lived on an 1800s appliqué quilt - now it is carved eternally into silver 🪡🧺💛

Hand-carved in wax, lost-wax cast, each Quilt Shield is one of a kind

Inspired by archives of quilts made by generations of women who hand stitched quilts to tell stories, and make meaning from their hardships

The first in a series of projects inspired by the rich history of women led craft.

This one is for all my quilting friends! For my grandma and my aunt that came before me as quilters. I hope one day to follow in their footsteps and make a quilt of my own

What craft should I do an ode to next?

Images from @folkling’s feed! If you’ve been wanting a vintage quilt, I can’t recommend their collection highly enough! 🍁✨

#slowfashion #shophandmade
#handmadejewelry #heirloomjewelry #quilt taken in Portland, Oregon by @snakeriver___

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Sunny day apple picking with the fam in Hood River!

Sieli is about to turn 3 and is SUCH a little go getter!

🍎🍁🍏🍁🧺 taken in Hood River, Oregon by @snakeriver___

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It’s a good time to start thinking about your custom engraved holiday gifts!

Ordering from a small indie jeweler means there are only two hands available to get these pieces to you and your loved ones!

Can’t wait to see what y’all order for your sweeties, for your bffs, for yourself!

💛💛💛 taken in Portland, Oregon by @snakeriver___

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It doesn’t have to be the best thing you’ve ever made. It doesn’t have to be good enough for anyone else.

Don’t let your fear of perfection hold you back. YOU made it, your beautiful hands, your beautiful mind, you.

That is the entire point.

Create & share freely, my friends. Do it for you and for those that truly see and love you! Everything else is a bonus.

I firmly believe this, and I also believe that with enough hours and dedication to any craft- you will get better.

But the real magic lies in simply participating in your own creativity

#smallbusiness #creativity #jewelrymaker #slowfashion taken in Portland, Oregon by @snakeriver___

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8 days ago

Savoring every moment of this transitional period to my favorite time of the year 🍁

I tend to crave the darkness. I get overstimulated in the summer, though swimming in a river is when I’m happiest- I crave the fog, the quiet, the slow crafts and gathering with a small group of safe people over soup & fresh bread & scary movies

Still, I find myself looking back at the memories and the lessons that this summer brought- all while trying to soak up every ounce of sunshine I can get. The Winters are long here. This is the time of year when I harvest all the connection & insights, storing them away for the dark, cold nights of Winter. Remembering that things might get a little lonely, but there are also so many lessons in this time of year.

Here’s to remembering that we are never truly alone, connection is only a phone call away. The light will come back, we’ll bask on sun soaked river rocks again- but now it is time for rest. It’s time to slow down, time to dream up what we’ll create next & drop deep into the lessons of the darkness

I love y’all! Happy Autumn, dear friends! 🍁🍂🐿️ by @snakeriver___

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11 days ago

It’s hard to even put into words the magical container of creativity that held us during our residency at @souwester — mirrored and made more potent by the two of us co-creating & dreaming & making.

The week was fueled by stardust & constellations. We spoke of comets and kettle steam milky ways. We stayed up into the early hours of the morning sketching and chatting as we followed Pinterest rabbit holes of cosmic portals, Hilma af Klint and Agnes Martin, drifting into a creative flow, that felt like an altered state of mind.

So many magical moments aligned during our stay. On an evening beach walk with @rei_koco , we stood along the shoreline and watched thousands upon thousands of birds follow swirling flight patterns and skim across the waves. How lucky to be able to witness their migration south for Winter!

We feel so incredibly grateful for the magic of this trip, the container that sou’wester held for us and the potency energy that was made possible by two creative bodies coming together to make work with deep intention, side by side.

We wrapped up our last evening by gazing into the night sky and were greeted by shooting stars. A magical end to a magical retreat. Who knew that we had been under the Perseids meteor shower the whole time!

No wonder we had inexplicably felt so inspired by space & stardust & all things celestial.

This taught us so much about the power of co-creating & making intentional space to step away from our busy lives. To create art without distractions, expectations or the noise we so easily get caught up in 💫🦢🌌🪞🌀 taken in Oregon by @snakeriver___

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13 days ago

🏠🪡 Quilt Inspired Shields are live! 🧶🌟

Scroll through to read the inspiration, history and lore behind these symbols

Each is hand carved from a block of wax and etched with the tiniest details

Each one of a kind, countless hours go into each collection of these

Coffin Star

A miniature take on the coffin star, this pattern ( a personal favorite) was made to mimic the elongated diamond share of the Delphinus constellation- a dolphin sent as a gift from Poseidon to Amphitrite to swoon her & win her love

With a history in story telling using the night sky- this pattern was often seen on mourning quilts made with deep calico, purples and grays- utlitizing the deceased loved one’s clothes pieced together to process grief

Out of suffering (the coffin) ⚰️ something beautiful and heavenly (the star) is created 🌟

Appliqué Wheat & Star

Also used in mourning jewelry

Images of wheat symbolize a long, fulfilling life & the harvest

Sawtooth Star

The most classic of quilting motifs & one of the oldest dating back to the earlier 18th century. Named sawtooth after its resemblance to a carpenters saw

Also called Morning Star or North Star- this design was meant to symbolize resilience & protection. Historically it was used in quilts during the Civil War to direct enslaved people to follow the North Star towards freedom

Six Point Star

A variation of the Sawtooth star, this pattern also dates back as early as the 1700s

Schoolhouse

First emerging around 1890, following house and church quilt blocks- these patterns represented gathering in community. Teaching was one of the few professions available to women & these schoolhouse patterns represented their contribution to society, though we all know just how much deeper these offerings run. Women are the foundation, femmes are everything. This whole collection truly is an ode to the rich history of women gathering and creating since the dawn of time

Dresden Flower

Named for the floral ornate porcelain plates that came from Dresden, Germany- this pattern originated in the late 19th century

Appliqué flower

Inspired by an 1860’s floral appliqué quilt top from the collection of @folkling based in Gordonsville, taken in Portland, Oregon by @snakeriver___

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14 days ago

✨🌟Quilt Shields Are Live! 🌟✨

Inspired by online archives and collections of vintage quilts

Appliqué flowers, classic motifs

Hand stitched quilts across generations of women

Each piece is hand carved & etched, each unique and one of a kind taken in Portland, Oregon by @snakeriver___

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I love making these SO much! So I’m offering a flash sale on Star signets and silver beads! Applied automatically at checkout- 22% off

Just for a day, let me make something special for you! Signify the life of a loved one, immortalize your affection in silver

ILY ily ily 🦢🪞🌌 by @snakeriver___

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